Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcing the financing, Texas Co. President Ralph C. Holmes said the proceeds would be used for expansion of the present organization rather than the acquisition of new units. Already one of the greatest in the world is the system to which this expansion will be brought. Texas Co.'s oil and gasoline are the only brand sold in every state. To supply this demand, as well as foreign markets, the company controls 6,431,151 acres of oil land from which flow 147,000 barrels a day. Pipe lines carry this oil 6,505 miles to 17 refineries, after...
...Propaganda," said the editorial, "can only represent a self-serving and partisan view. Therefore it corrupts the stream of public information. What the world needs is truth, all sides of every story, written by disinterested hands, with sources carefully identified.'' The editorial ended by stating that "newspaperdom, or that part of it which is conscientiously devoted to independent action that the people may know all, would greatly rejoice if President Butler would put the key into the door of this particular classroom and turn it for all time...
...Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good day a year, and he knows when it's coming." Amazed, the Chicago rooters saw Pitcher Ehmke's easy looking curves, mixed with occasional fast ones, break a world series record by striking out 13, saw him in the third inning...
Third Game. Cub Pitcher Guy Bush coming up to bat at the start of the sixth, capered, skipped and grimaced according to instructions of McCarthy, who had said to him: "See if you can diddle a walk." With Bush and English on base, Hornsby and Cuyler, razzed as they came up for having struck out twelve times in two games and a half, each made clean hits. After that Pitcher Bush seemed to get more speed on the ball; his curve broke faster and Philadelphia only got one more hit. Cubs 3, Athletics...
...compromise may, however, entail the wiping out of some air mail routes. Mr. Brown himself indicated that last week. Said he to the Washington Advertising Club: "My own judgment is that the Federal Government should concentrate its exceptional aid on a few natural transportation routes which have been traveled by ox team, pony express, railroad, automobile and airplane, because people and commodities have naturally traveled over such routes since white men came to America...